This report makes recommendations about improving linkages and collaborations between the public and private sectors, fostering a more entrepreneurial culture in Australia, and better publicising the range of innovation assistance available. Other recommendations relate to addressing gaps in the assistance available and removing blocks to innovation.

This submission to the parliamentary inquiry into community broadcasting provides information about the scope and role of the Australian community broadcasting sector, through a summary of the sector's key characteristics, history and composition; how the regulatory framework serves to encourage services that reflect the cultural diversity of Australian communities; and challenges faced by the community...

This research investigates Australian residential consumers’ experiences with e-security and identifies areas of concern and their implications on telecommunications policy and regulation. Findings and recommendations have been formed through a literature review and an online survey of 254 Australian consumers. In age, gender and location, the collection of consumers we surveyed reasonably represents a wider...

Under HECS former students with a debt face a sharp discontinuity. At the first repayment threshold they are required to repay a percentage of their entire income, resulting in an effective marginal tax rate that could be regarded as being as high as 76,000 percent. The authors formally model the taxpayer decision, and then use...

Luke Buckmaster provides a brief overview of RU486 and its use in medical abortion, an explanation of its current legislative status in Australia, and a brief analysis of the current debate about overturning legislative restrictions on RU486 and similar abortion drugs in Australia introduced at the instigation of Senator Brian Harradine in 1996.